3-0 up, 3-3 by minute 60: Kraken outlast Red Wings 4-3 after overtime

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3-0 up at the 37-minute mark, level at 3-3 by minute 60, and still standing at the end: Seattle Kraken beat Detroit Red Wings 4-3 after overtime at Climate Pledge Arena.

Mackie Samoskevich opened the scoring at minute seven off Chandler Stephenson's setup, and the Kraken carried that 1-0 lead into the first break. Ryker Evans made it 2-0 at 24 — his only shot of the night went in, and he finished plus-2 — before Brandon Montour stretched it to 3-0 at 37. Berkly Catton assisted both, the playmaker behind the entire cushion. The discipline was symmetrical: four minors apiece, eight minutes each, with Shane Wright, Evans, Ryan Winterton and Stephenson sitting for Seattle and Ben Chiarot plus Axel Sandin-Pellikka among Detroit's offenders.

Detroit's reply arrived as a 13-minute storm. Philipp Grubauer, unscored-upon through two periods, was beaten twice in sixty seconds: Viktor Arvidsson broke through at 47 off Emmitt Finnie, Lucas Raymond cut it to 3-2 a minute later off Dylan Larkin. The Red Wings' power play ran at 2-for-4 while Seattle's went 1-for-3, and Alex DeBrincat completed the climb at the 60-minute mark, Raymond again the provider: 3-3.

Raymond did a bit of everything — a goal, an assist on the equalizer, four shots — and then took the extra frame's only minor at 65. Larkin stacked two assists on six shots, DeBrincat a goal and an assist on five. But the quiet architect wore Kraken colors: Catton's two second-period assists built the lead Seattle nearly gave away, and Daniil Tarasov's 24 saves only delayed the fourth goal.

Detroit outscored Seattle 3-0 over the final 23 minutes and still left with nothing — the comeback was real, and so was the escape. Three goals surrendered, one answered in the extra frame: 4-3 Kraken, and Climate Pledge Arena kept the last word.